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Probation officers.
7 Edw. 7. c. 17, s. 3.
Probation orders.
7 Edw. 7. c. 17, ss. 2, 3.
11 of 1947, s. 2.
Juvenile Offenders.
(j) Where a child is brought before a juvenile court for any offence other than homicide the case shall be finally disposed of in such court.
(k) Where a young person is brought before a juvenile court for any offence other than homicide the case may be finally disposed of in such court.
9. (1) The Governor may by notice in the Gazette appoint a fit and proper person or persons of either sex and either by name or as holding any public office for the time being to be a probation officer or officers, and may from time to time appoint a deputy probation officer to act in the absence or during the illness or incapacity of any probation officer, and may appoint an assistant probation officer to perform under the direction of a probation officer, all or any of the duties of a probation officer. A probation officer when acting under a probation order shall be subject to the control of the court.
(2) Where a child or young person or any person who in the opinion of the court has attained the age of sixteen years but has not attained the age of twenty-one years is charged with any offence other than homicide and the court is satisfied that the charge is proved the court may make an order discharging the offender conditionally on his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties, to be of good behaviour and to appear for sentence or for conviction and sentence when called upon at any time during such period, not exceeding three years, as may be specified in the order.
(3) A recognizance entered into under this section shall, if the court so order, contain a condition that the offender be under the supervision of such person as may be named in the order during the period specified in the order and such other conditions for securing such supervision as may be specified in the order, and an order requiring the insertion of such conditions as aforesaid in the recognizance is in this Ordinance referred to as a probation order. The court by which a probation order is made shall furnish to the offender a notice in writing in a language understood by the offender stating in simple terms the conditions he is required to observe.
11 of 1947, s. 2.
(4) A recognizance under this section may contain such additional conditions as the court may, having regard to the circumstances of the case, think fit to impose.
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